5 September 2011
Without doubt the most amazing landslide of the year so far – Pingtung County, Taiwan
Posted by Dave Petley
Hat-tip to Chingying Tsou of Kyoto University for the heads up for this, and to the Soil and Water Conservation Bureau in Taiwan, who have provided the information. They are putting together a report on this landslide, so I will leave the detail to them, but this is a small taster of what is to come.
During the passage of typhoon Nanmadol across Taiwan last week, a large landslide was triggered at Manchou in Pingtung County. This map Google Earth perspective view shows the location of the landslide:
The coordinates are: Lat 22.038, long 120.803 if you want to look this up. The mass movement, which is being called the Laufoshan Landslide, failed twice (on 29th and 31st August), with a reported runout distance of 6 km (corrected, but this is unverified at the moment). Fortunately no-one was killed.
This is the source area of this remarkable landslide:
And this is the landslide track:
I will post a link to the Soil and Water Conservation Bureau information about this landslide as soon as it becomes available.
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
in the middle like a road!!! like horizontal, soil proprties?
Hello, Dave.
Just to note that the runout distance is about 2km.
maybe it started as a soil landslide,then it transfered to a mudflow.
[…] There has been a great deal going on in my absence! So, to start off, a brief update on the Pingtung landslide in Taiwan that I featured last week. Thanks to Ching-Ying Tsou for pointing out that the Soil and Water Conservation in Taiwan now […]
Hi, Dear All,
I am the employee of SWCB, and I want to share some information~~
Here is UAV images from Soil and Water Conservation Bureau in Taiwan:
http://uav.swcb.gov.tw/01_imageSearch_list.asp?xNo=150
Here is English version for sediment disaster record website of SWCB
http://246eng.swcb.gov.tw/Records/Records.aspx
Here is Chinese version for sediment disaster record website of SWCB (more complete)
http://246.swcb.gov.tw/DebrisPage/ImpNewsDisaster.asp
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